Athamas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Athamas O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877[1]
Type species
A. whitmeei O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877
Species
7, see text

Athamas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1877.^[2] The name is derived from Athamas, the king of Orchomenus in Greek mythology.

As of June 2019^[update] it contains seven species, found on Vanuatu, Palau, in Papua New Guinea, on the Polynesian Islands, and Tahiti:^[1]

• Athamas debakkeri Szüts, 2003 – Papua New Guinea (New Ireland)
• Athamas guineensis Jendrzejewska, 1995 – New Guinea
• Athamas kochi Jendrzejewska, 1995 – Tahiti
• Athamas nitidus Jendrzejewska, 1995 – New Guinea
• Athamas proszynskii Ono, 2011 – Palau Is.
• Athamas tahitensis Jendrzejewska, 1995 – French Polynesia (Society Is.: Tahiti)
• Athamas whitmeei O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 (type) – Vanuatu, Polynesia

• Szűts, T. (2003). "On remarkable jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Papua New Guinea" (PDF). Folia Entomologica Hungarica. 64: 41–58. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27.

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